Business Analyst

Role Overview

A fast growing FMCG Business are looking for a Business Analyst to work across multiple projects, bridging the gap between business needs and technical requirements on technology projects in the portfolio. You will work in partnership with business experts and technology teams to identify & implement solutions to meet the needs of our evolving business. This role is reporting to the IT Projects Manager.

Personal profile:

• You're able to work collaboratively with others - understanding and leveraging different perspectives, skills, and objectives to realise project objectives.
• You will be driven to learn about and understand the business and, within your area of influence, the impact your work could have to its continued success.
• You will be exceedingly detail orientated and comfortable managing a backlog of cross-functional, multi-project requirements.
• You will have strong problem-solving skills and ability to logically analyse complex requirements, processes, and systems to put solutions in place.
• You'll show a natural interest in staying up to date with industry trends as well a keen interest in emerging technologies and analytical techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery activities to clarify scope of new ideas.
• Prepare and facilitate workshops by assimilating existing knowledge, identifying gaps, setting up the workshop agendas, identifying participants & creating workshop materials.
• Use facilitation techniques alongside business and technical knowledge to drive out requirements from a range of business and technical stakeholders.
• Communicate and document clear, unambiguous functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Understand, map, and visualise process changes resulting from implementation.
• Scope and document test scripts where necessary, and lead user acceptance testing.
• Deliver end-user training and hypercare support.
• Transfer knowledge to BAU owners at close of projects.
• Support project manager in planning for the business and technical impact of a project, including business change mapping, implementation, and adoption.
• Build the standard and tools for business analysis within the organisation.

Required skills, experience and education:

• Experience in a Business Analyst role for 1 year or more.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject is preferred.
• BCS Certification in Business Analysis (or comparable) is ideal but not required.
• Experience in the FMCG sector or other fast growth businesses would be an advantage.

• Must be familiar with process mapping tools (e.g. LucidChart, Visio).